[Hidden-tech] Just a few more questions on the mac-to-PC transition

[Duane Dale]

About 2 years ago, I successfully did a file transfer from MacBook (vintage
2009 or so) to a new Windows 10 laptop as follows:

Remove hard drive from MacBook. (I don't recall what aspect of the MacBook
was so dysfunctional as to make this an appealing solution.)
Using a $10 kit (from eBay or Amazon) that gives a "bare" hard drive power
and a USB connection, connect it to the (new) Windows 10 laptop.

Install a free trial version of software on the W10 machine that would read
a Mac-formatted hard drive.
Copy any /all Mac documents, photos, etc. onto the W10's hard drive.

-- Duane Dale

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Robert and Jeff. You both told me that the drive has to be in
> PC-friendly format. And Robert, thanks also for the explanation about top
> menus.
>
> Funny that no one mentioned that among the several people who suggested an
> external would be the best way to transfer the data. I was really
> hoping—and assuming—that I'd be able to move the external between computers
> as needed, since it's only data files I need and not program or utility
> files.
>
> But I've figured out a solution:
>
> I have an 8GB SD card for my camera. That's big enough to take at least
> some of the files. I need to go get a big flash drive (my clients seem to
> be able to use the Mac-generated files I put on their PC flash drives
> without a hitch) but meanwhile I have begun copying the most important
> folders that are small enough to fit.
>
> Also, can anyone weigh in on #s 2 (printer driver problem) and 4)
> (*recommended macro program)?
> ᐧ
>
>
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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:00:30 +0100 Shel Horowitz <
>> shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks to this community (and some significant time on tech support
>> calls
>> > and chats), I'm making progress. I've gotten files onto my external
>> from my
>> > Mac, successfully installed MS Office (not an easy thing because the
>> > company I bought the software from apparently was supposed to notify
>> > Microsoft and the program didn't recognize my MS account as having
>> > purchased it—that one took half an hour on Microsoft's Live Chat to
>> > straighten out).I also installed Malwarebytes antivirus.
>> >
>> > Advice: do NOT buy software from SoftwaresMax if you will ever need tech
>> > support. I have contacted the company 2x by phone and once by chat. 2
>> > voicemails with no call back, 1 successful connection to someone who was
>> > helpful but her solution didn't fix the problem, and one completely
>> > inappropriate response on chat.
>> >
>> > Still having a few issues and questions:
>> >
>> >    1. What am I doing wrong that my external  (Seagate USB that I think
>> is
>> >    about 10 years old and connects fine on the Mac) doesn't show up
>> when I
>> >    plug it into the PC's USB? I've tried both ports and also tried
>> restarting
>> >    while it's connected. I can't even figure out what letter it is in
>> the hope
>> >    that I could find a pathname that way. It's not C, D, or E, as those
>> are
>> >    claimed by built-in devices, and it does not show up under Device
>> Manager:
>> >    Dries
>>
>> Guessing: the drive is formatted with the Mac file system -- M$ won't be
>> able
>> to handle that (althouh Linux will).
>>
>> >    2. I installed the drivers for my Dell 3335dn networked multifunction
>> >    printer but every time I try to print I get error messages. I have
>> tried
>> >    cleaning out the queue, but some of the errors don't even put
>> something in
>> >    the queue. It prints fine both from my Mac and my wife's both of
>> which are
>> >    also connecting wirelessly. I tried a hard-wire connection with a
>> blue
>> >    Ethernet cable, no luck.I haven't yet tried a crossover cable but I'd
>> >    rather do it wirelessly anyway.
>> >    3. Internet browsers on the Mac include a top menu (e.g., in Chrome,
>> >    it's Chrome-File-Edit-View-History-Bookmarks-Peole-Window-Help). I
>> figured
>> >    out how to jump between windows on the PC browsers (Chrome and Edge)
>> but
>> >    not how to do the other stuff that I get from the menus. Is there a
>> way to
>> >    display them?
>>
>> Arg... The "new way" is to not have menu bars (on both MS-Windows and
>> newer
>> versions of Linux, since *nobody* uses the menu bars with webbrowsers
>> :-). I
>> don't know about Chrome or Edge, but with Firefox under Lunux there is a
>> menu
>> icon in the upper right corner. *Right Click* there and there is a
>> dropdown
>> "context" menu where you can enable the "menu bar". I would *guess* the
>> same
>> sort of thing will work for Chrome or Edge, but I don't know -- *I* don't
>> use
>> M$ software and Chrome does not run on the version of Linux I use.
>>
>> (The "top menu" is not disablable under MacOS -- it is a "feature" of
>> Finder.
>> Note: under M$, the menu bar is "attached" to the application window.
>> Same
>> for *most* Linux GUI systems [Ubuntu's Unity behaves like MacOS's
>> Finder].)
>>
>> >    4. I'm looking for a good keyboard macro program, ideally $50 or less
>> >    for a one-time purchase. My needs are fairly simple, pretty much
>> just text
>> >    strings (been getting by just fine with the very simple AText on
>> Mac). Any
>> >    recommendations?
>> >    5. How do I set the default so that MS Office documents are stored on
>> >    the actual physical drive rather than the cloud-based OneDrive? I am
>> fine
>> >    about using the cloud for music and photos, but I've had enough
>> experience
>> >    with data files being inaccessible via the cloud that I'd rather
>> have them
>> >    physically stored on the computer.
>> >
>> > Other than the huge footprint that barely fits into my backpack, I think
>> > I'm really going to like this computer once the bugs are worked out. And
>> > the footprint is directly related to two features I like a lot: the
>> > beautiful screen and the real numeric keypad.
>> >
>> > Thanks once more and Happy Daylight Savings Time.
>> >
>> > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)
>> > ________________________________________________
>> > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,
>> > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
>> > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809
>> > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>**
>> > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>*
>> > (move your mouse to "event videos")
>> >
>> > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
>> > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
>> >
>> > Twitter: @shelhorowitz
>> >
>> > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
>> > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
>> >
>> > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
>> > http://transformpreneur.com
>> > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
>> > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:
>> > Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad
>> Levinson)
>> >
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